KINGSTON, Jamaica — Rasheed Broadbell ran a season’s best 13.09 seconds (-0.1m/s) to snatch a bronze medal in the 110m hurdles on Thursday’s evening session of the Olympic Games at Stade de France in Paris, Jamaica’s sixth medal of the Games.

Jamaican athletes have now won one gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Games.

It was sweet redemption for Broadbell, the Commonwealth Games champion, who failed to complete the first round at last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary when he was favoured to medal.

It took thousands of a second to separate Broadbell from American Daniel Roberts who was credited with the same time, both well behind Grant Holloway who won his first Olympic title, running 12.99 seconds to go with three World Athletics Championships gold medals.

Orlando Bennett was seventh with 13.34 seconds, while Hansle Parchment, the Olympic champion three years ago in Tokyo, was eighth in 13.39 seconds.

-Paul A Reid